Cyber infrastructure for Community Remote Sensing
Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Mike Wan, Wayne Schroeder · 2010
Community Remote Sensing (CRS) is an emerging field where information is collected about the environment by the general public and then integrated into collections to provide a holistic view of the environment with local details. We argue the need for a common architecture for the cyber-infrastructure that will be necessary to cater to the needs of Community Remote Sensing systems. We identify the challenges that such a cyber infrastructure (CRS-CI) has to meet and also proposed five principles as solutions to meet these challenges. Finally, we also describe the integrated Rule Oriented Data System, a data grid middleware that is built upon these principles which provides an ideal and exemplar implementation for CRS-CI.